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Alternative names: Pohnpei White-eye; Large Ponapé White-eye; Ponapé White-eye

Rukia longirostra

[edit] Identification

13cm. A distinctive white eye.

• Long, thin and decurved bill
• Buffy olive upperparts
• Slightly greener on head
• Narrow eyering
• Blackish-brown flight-feathers and tail feathers with olive to brownish margins
• Much lighter underparts, buffy, strongest on flanks
• Chin, throat and centre of underparts slightly tinged greenish-yellow

Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Pohnpei in the east-central Caroline Islands (Federated States of Micronesia).
A widespread but uncommon restricted-range species.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Rukia sanfordi is a synonym to the current scientific name.

[edit] Habitat

Moist forest and plantations above 600m.

[edit] Behaviour

No information on diet, feeds probably on insects.
Forages quietly in the canopy, often with Grey-brown White-eye.
Birds with enlarged gonads recorded in December and February, an immature seen in April. No other information on breeding.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2008. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553453

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